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Explore the Diverse Art Scene of New Mexico! Dive into a variety of upcoming exhibitions across the state. From large-scale works to explorations of light and photography, there’s something for every artistic taste. Witness impressive, large-scale artworks or delve into the unique light of New Mexico through diverse artistic mediums. Expand your art adventure! Explore for exhibitions happening around New Mexico.
Electra Gallery Presents:
Emanations of Inner Light
Celestial investigations by Michael W. Barnard. Michael’s visual artwork uses mixed media and assemblage to communicate transcendent states of being. Thread, glass, acrylic paint, and gold leaf come together to describe abstract forms and environments that are both elusive and mysteriously familiar.
Emanations of Inner Light opens with a reception from 5-8pm Friday, July 10th at Electra Gallery, 825 Early St, Ste. C in Santa Fe. The exhibition will be on view through Saturday, August 22nd. electragallery.com.
Turner Carroll Gallery has:
Into the Forest
Featuring works from artist Swoon’s new body of work, Sibylant Sisters exploring her childhood through magical realism, the world premiere of her oracle deck, and eidophones and unique paintings.
Into the Forest is on view through Friday, July 10th at Turner Carroll Gallery, 725 Canyon Rd in Santa Fe. turnercarrollgallery.com.
The National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum Presents:
Visual Arts Museum Tour
Docent-guided tours of both the Torreón and Art Museum on the second Saturday of every month.
Visual Arts Museum Tour takes place on Saturday, July 11th at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 4th St SW in Albuquerque. nhccnm.org.
516 Arts Presents:
The Rest is Drag
The exhibition explores the intersection of identity, performance, and community along the “Mother Road,” an enduring symbol of the American Dream and the nation’s penchant for westward expansion.
The Rest is Drag opens with a reception from 6-8pm on Saturday, July 11th at 516 Arts, 516 Central Ave SW in Albuquerque. The exhibition is on view through Saturday, October 10th. 516arts.org.
Wild Hearts Gallery has:
The Art of Turning
The exhibition spotlights David Croxton’s Basket Illusion pieces, one of his favorite techniques, where a solid piece of wood is crafted to look like a woven basket. In addition, the exhibit will include items from his Ancient Dwellings series as well as vessels of natural wood that need no embellishment due to their exceptional grain and color.
The Art of Turning hosts an artist’s reception on Saturday, July 11th, 1-3pm at Wild Hearts Gallery in Placitas. The exhibition will be on view through Sunday, August 2nd. wildheartsgallery.com.
5 Point Gallery has:
the smell of buckwheat
A group exhibition featuring works from Eve Aschheim, Brandon Behning, Harmony Hammond, Kate Joyce, Dara Mark, David McDonald, Rocío Rodríguez, & Utako Shindo.
the smell of buckwheat is on view through Saturday, July 11th at 5 Point Gallery in Santa Fe. 5pointgallery.com.
Zane Bennett Contemporary Art has:
Lucid Perturbations
This exhibition brings together over 200 artworks from China Marks’s sewn oeuvre, offering the broadest survey of the artist’s surreal tableaux to date. Showcasing beautifully bizarre sewn cosmos of wit, humor, and aporia for our contemplation and interpretation.
Lucid Perturbations will be on view through Saturday, July 11th at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, 435 S Guadalupe in Santa Fe. zanebennettgallery.com.
Institute of American Indian Arts has:
Paper Trails
Featuring artwork from 22 different artists whose hope is to “reclaim and reconfigure” the material legacy of paper as “an instrument of control and erasure”.
Paper Trails is on view at IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, 108 Cathedral Pl in Santa Fe through Sunday, July 12th. iaia.edu/mocna.
South Broadway Cultural Center has:
At the East of my Past and the West of my Future
Set against the iconic backdrop of Albuquerque’s Big I—where I-25 and I-40 converge—this exhibition transforms this concrete crossroads into a metaphysical one, invoking the soul of South Broadway and the mythos of Route 66.
At the East of my Past and the West of my Future will be on view through Friday, July 17th at the South Broadway Cultural Center, 1025 Broadway Blvd SE in Albuquerque.
Gerald Peters Contemporary has:
After the Dust Settles
A solo exhibition of new paintings by Michael Cassidy drawing from the visual language of the American West. Cassidy explores cowboy imagery, Spanish heritage, and Native American culture.
After the Dust Settles will be on view through Friday, July 17th at Gerald Peters Contemporary, 1011 Paseo de Peralta in Santa Fe. gpgallery.com.
Evoke Contemporary has:
Snackadora
This exhibition is a vibrant meditation on environmental fragility and the inter-connectedness of all living things featuring work by Irene Hardwicke Olivieri.
Snackadora exhibition will be on view through Saturday, July 25th at Evoke Contemporary, 550 S Guadalupe St in Santa Fe. Evokecontemporary.com.
TAI Modern has:
Nakatomi Hajime
The artist’s first solo exhibition in the US. It brings together work from five series developed over more than two decades — Prism, Musubi, Auspicious 8, Frill, and FLY — work defined by a single animating question: what does it mean for something not to look like bamboo?
Nakatomi Hajime will be on view through Saturday, July 25th at TAI Modern, 1601 Paseo de Peralta in Santa Fe. taimodern.com.
The Institute of Contemporary Art has:
Memories of the Past That Hug Me in a Nest
Activist, documentary filmmaker and artist, Tiago Almeida brings together installation, photography, and documentary film to engage the intertwined histories of the coffee plantations of the Vale do Café and the forced displacement and labor of enslaved Africans.
Memories of the Past That Hug Me in a Nest is on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, 906 St. Francis Dr in Santa Fe through Sunday, July 26th. icasantafe.org.
The Gallery ABQ has:
The Heart of New Mexico
A salon show featuring work by local artists working in various media. The featured artist for July is pastel painter Nancy Schrock who also does work in pencil.
The Heart of New Mexico will be on view through Friday, July 31st at The Gallery ABQ in Hoffmantown Shopping Center at 8120 Menaul Blvd NE. thegalleryabq.com.
Fourteenfifteen Gallery has:
Declarations of Incongruence
Curated by Aaron Wilder, this exhibition features artistic declarations that challenge, draw attention to, refuse, and embody resilience despite the perpetuation of incongruence between America’s founding mythology and historic, contemporary, and future realities.
Declarations of Incongruence closes with a reception on Friday, July 31st, 6-9pm at Fourteenfifteen Gallery, 1415 4th St SW in Albuquerque. fourteenfifteengallery.com.
Secret Gallery has:
(Hum)
A solo exhibition of the artwork of Noé Barnett that explores the quiet forces that shape our lives. Best known for his large-scale murals, Barnett turns inward with a new body of work that showcases his versatility as a painter, moving seamlessly between hyperrealism and atmospheric imagery.
(Hum) is on view at Secret Gallery, 717 Central Ave NW inside Arrive Hotel in downtown Albuquerque through Saturday, August 1st. secretgallery.com.
N4 Arts Presents:
In This Space
A mixed-media collection of works by participants in the program for adults with developmental disabilities
In This Space is on view through Sunday, August 2nd in Fusion Gallery, 708 1st St NW in Albuquerque. fusionnm.org.
Vladem Contemporary has:
Notes from the Radical Whirlwind
Featuring the artwork of Lucy R. Lippard, writer, activist, and curator, who has been a revolutionary force in the international art world for over sixty years. A resident of New Mexico since 1993, Lippard’s focus on the local has prompted exhibitions, panels, letters to the editor, and books exploring the histories and archeological landscapes of the state.
Notes from the Radical Whirlwind is on view at Vladem Contemporary at the New Mexico Museum of Art, 404 Montezuma in Santa Fe through Sunday, August 9th. nmartmuseum.org/vladem-contemporary.
Gallery with a Cause has:
On the Rise
Works by artists in early and mid-career featuring 300 works from painting to photography and realism to abstraction by 14 New Mexico artists.
On the Rise is on view through Friday, August 21st at Gallery with a Cause inside the New Mexico Cancer Center, 4901 Lang Ave NE in Albuquerque. 40% of each art sale is tax-deductible and goes to the New Mexico Cancer Center Foundation supporting patients’ non-medical needs. gallerywithacause.org.
Site Santa Fe has:
Indian Theater
Inspired by both the occupation of Alcatraz by the Indians of All Tribes in 1969 as well as a treatise written at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) that same year and first published in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this presentation of Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969 marks a kind of ‘homecoming’ for the conceptual basis of the groundbreaking exhibition.
Indian Theater is on view through Monday, September 7th at Site Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta. sitesantafe.org.
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has:
Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country
This group exhibition is meant to draw awareness to the erasure of Tewa presence in Georgia O’Keeffe’s artworks and her understanding of Northern New Mexico. The exhibition also signals the museum’s increased engagement with contemporary art.
Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country is on view through Monday, September 7th at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 217 Johnson St in Santa Fe. okeeffemuseum.org.
Palace of the Governors has:
Forks in the Road: A Diner’s Guide to New Mexico
Featuring iconic eateries and the stories that go with them. The curators of the exhibition received more than 100 online nominations for which restaurants to showcase.
Forks in the Road: A Diner’s Guide to New Mexico is on view for the next two years through Sunday, September 20th at the Palace of the Governors, 105 W Palace Ave in Santa Fe. nmhistorymuseum.org.
The Museum of International Folk Art has:
I Am Clay: Acoma Life in Figures
This exhibition is a community-curated project that focuses on figurative pottery from Acoma Pueblo. The show examines ancestral Puebloan precursors to figuration in clay, as well as how the rise of tourism and the market for Pueblo pottery at the turn of the 20th century shaped the development of this practice.
I Am Clay: Acoma Life in Figures is on view through Monday, November 30th at the Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Camino Lejo on Museum Hill in Santa Fe. moifa.org.
The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center has:
Grounded in Clay: the Spirit of Pueblo Pottery
A traveling exhibition that features over 100 historic as well as contemporary works in clay curated by the Pueblo Pottery Collective. It kicks off the celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.
Grounded in Clay: the Spirit of Pueblo Pottery will be on view through February 21st, 2027 at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 12th St NW in Albuquerque. indianpueblo.org.indianpueblo.org.